"Understand your strengths and play on them. Forget about your weaknesses. We all have weaknesses." - Ayşegül İldenizThe TurkishWIN mentoring program matches TurkishWIN members with peer-to-peer, senior-to-junior, Diaspora-Turkey, or local-to-local mentor/mentee connections. We recommend that our matched mentors/mentees have at least 6 meetin... Continue reading
May flew by with holidays and the summer arriving, but we didn't stop working hard and creating meaningful experiences. Million Women Mentors: We reached 357 mentoring matches! Thank you to all trailblazer mentors who joined us for the inaugural mentoring group.Give Back: We welcomed the new cohort of CampusWIN Champions who joined our big sis... Continue reading
We are super happy and excited: We have launched our new mentoring service today. We have distilled your feedback from over 1000+ mentoring matches, our brain trust members’ suggestions, and our team’s creative input and here we are! We have updated our Mentoring Program to give our members the most control and flexibil... Continue reading
Oya Günay is an Executive Coach and Strategy Partner, working with global leaders and corporate executives since 2010. She helps these individuals discover themselves, interpret global dynamics, learn from best practices, and become more effective and impactful in a connected world. What do you do for a living? Tell us mor... Continue reading
2021 started fast and busy but we were able to host some amazing events and start exciting new projects. We would like to share with you our monthly magazine for the latest updates at TurkishWIN. Just to recap some of the highlights from April:Million Women Mentors: We welcomed Petrol Ofisi to the Milyon Kadina Mentor movement as our... Continue reading
We were in for a treat in the last gathering of our Digital Transformation Learning Circles. Our guest was by Pınar Köse-Kulacz, Head of AI & Data, Arçelik. Our discussion was on resilient business models. Our guiding questions were: How do rapidly emerging artificial intelligence and data tools make business models more resilient and how... Continue reading
Every day is Women's Day for the TurkishWIN community. But today marks a new beginning for us.From 1 to 1 MM. We celebrated International Women's Day by embarking on a new giveback journey: Milyon Kadına Mentor program.At TurkishWIN, we have been running a mentoring program since 2012 and a STEM youth program since 2015. When we heard about t... Continue reading
Congratulations on your decision to join a mentoring program. As a mentee, you invest in your future and are off to an amazing journey! At TurkishWIN, we support our mentees with the TurkishWIN Mentoring Guide- offering tips, recommendations, a sample mentoring agreement and more, events, a newsletter, a digital learning cent... Continue reading
A Mentor is a trusted counselor or guide. She has the ability to lead, inspire, and motivate her mentee by enhancing the mentee’s awareness of and perspective on her development plan. Remember, your mentee is excited about this journey. She is anxious and inspired at the same time. She has a goal, decided to invest in her self-developmen... Continue reading
Ayşıl Akcanbaş is a Human Resources professional with 25 years of experience, the last 15 years of which were spent at the executive board levels at several prominent multinational (e.g., Xerox, Alcatel, Lafarge, Johnson and Johnson) and domestic Turkish (e.g., Dogan Holding, Ayaydin Miroglio) companies that operate in a variety of sectors. She was... Continue reading